Small Cakes, Big Business

Grow your cake business! Acquire new customers by offering an affordable collection of original cake designs you can create on-demand.

Delight customers with a line of amazing cake designs you can create efficiently, consistently and for much less than the cost of a custom cake. With expert cake decorator Chrissie Boon, you’ll learn tips for pricing your cakes, and making decorations ahead of time to cut down complexity. Then, discover Chrissie’s time- and cost-saving processes as she guides you through four dazzling cake projects from start to finish. You’ll see how to create Chrissie’s basketball-themed cake with a scoreboard, princess cake with beautiful cake bling, drippy icing cake decorated with fun fondant candles and gift box cake you could mistake for the real thing. Plus, take a tour of Chrissie’s Web site to see how she markets and displays her cakes!

Lesson plan

Lesson 1. Balancing Your Customers & Costs

Meet Chrissie and learn her strategy for balancing customization, customers and costs.

20:06

Lesson 2. Basketball Cake

Learn Chrissie’s techniques for making a sporty basketball cake and how to create cake boards that look like hardwood.

23:15

Lesson 3. The Perfect Princess Cake

Chrissie shows you how to form, paint and store gum paste tiaras to top a beautiful, quilted princess cake.

26:41

Lesson 4. Drippy Icing Cake

Learn to make candles, cherries and other decorations ahead of time and see how quickly Chrissie’s Drippy Icing Cake comes together.

9:08

Lesson 5. Present Cake Details

Form tissue paper out of fondant and make a fashionable textured bow in preparation for the Present Cake.

19:26

Lesson 6. Putting the Present Cake Together

Wrap a square cake like a present and then add the fondant-covered top and maybe even a little jewelry!

5:05

Lesson 7. Marketing Considerations

Chrissie shares invaluable tips and advice for decorators looking to market and sell their own line of custom cakes.

"This class was fantastic! I love that it is a business class mixed with a design class! As someone who works a full time job and runs a cake biz as well, the tips on pre-production and the concept of a line of simpler, "what you see is what you get" cakes are invaluable. It is a way I think will help me grow my business so I can start to scale back on my day job eventually. Chrissie is a great instructor. She comes across as knowledgeable and presents clearly. She was easy to follow and I would buy any class she teaches!" - MorselsByMarkMontreal, QC Canada

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Lesson plan

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Lesson 1. Balancing Your Customers & Costs

Meet Chrissie and learn her strategy for balancing customization, customers and costs.

20:06

Lesson 2. Basketball Cake

Learn Chrissie’s techniques for making a sporty basketball cake and how to create cake boards that look like hardwood.

23:15

Lesson 3. The Perfect Princess Cake

Chrissie shows you how to form, paint and store gum paste tiaras to top a beautiful, quilted princess cake.

26:41

Lesson 4. Drippy Icing Cake

Learn to make candles, cherries and other decorations ahead of time and see how quickly Chrissie’s Drippy Icing Cake comes together.

9:08

Lesson 5. Present Cake Details

Form tissue paper out of fondant and make a fashionable textured bow in preparation for the Present Cake.

19:26

Lesson 6. Putting the Present Cake Together

Wrap a square cake like a present and then add the fondant-covered top and maybe even a little jewelry!

5:05

Lesson 7. Marketing Considerations

Chrissie shares invaluable tips and advice for decorators looking to market and sell their own line of custom cakes.

The instructor

Chrissie Boon, Instructor of Small Cakes, Big Business

Chrissie began her baking career as a teenager, when she took over a cookie business that her mother and next-door neighbor had started. While at university, Chrissie took some cake decorating classes and realized she had found her career. Following her passion, Chrissie opened a small cake and cookie shop. Today, she and her husband run their custom cake studio Too Nice to Slice, which is also home to Icing Inspirations, their cake decorating supply store. Chrissie is proud to create cakes that her customers cherish and share what she’s learned with cake decorators from around the world.

Ratings & reviews

Class rating

(69 reviews)

Excellent

by Mimi soto on February 18, 2015

Great

by divine cupakes2 on January 14, 2015

Love the simply and clear instructions from beginning to end

Love the simply and clear instructions from beginning to end

Brilliant!

by oliviamar4229603 on December 23, 2014

Love this class! It's one of my favourites. Very well delivered. Great cakes!

Love this class! It's one of my favourites. Very well delivered. Great cakes!

Cake Mom

by DevaCWilliamson on December 17, 2014

I love Chrissie's classes. She's like my cake mom. Very educational and not boring and has me always thinking frugally while being able to express my artistic side through my cakes. I'm happy to be taking this class

I love Chrissie's classes. She's like my cake mom. Very educational and not boring and has me always thinking frugally while being able to express my artistic side through my cakes. I'm happy to be taking this class